en-us Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:16:27 -0500 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ THE ENRIGHT FILES What to Make of Poetry? Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio One's "The Sunday Edition", in conversation with Billy Collins, Bruce Meyer and Sheldon Zitner on the uses, the sound and the meaning of poetry. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:36 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060522_497.mp3 33070 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ CONTINENTAL RIFT There’s an argument between Europe and America manifest since 9/11. Misunderstanding or two irreconcilable visions? A discussion between French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut and John MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:33 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060529_500.mp3 41279 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ In the seventh annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium, celebrated Canadian author George Elliot Clarke explores Canada’s multicultural roots and confronts the critical issues facing Canada’s diverse cities today: ethnic disaffection, violence and poverty. The LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium is Canada’s pre-eminent national forum for the discussion of the future of democracy in Canada. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:32 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060605_503.mp3 49862 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ RETHINKING THE MILITARY Where are the sharpest spears? In a Calgary Institute for the Humanities seminar, military analysts David Bercuson, Janice Stein, and David Rudd debate new roles for our military. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:25 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060619_508.mp3 74446 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Heart disease was the biggest pandemic of the twentieth century and remains the number one killer in developed countries. Yet there is still no consensus about its cause. Cholesterol is the number one suspect, and cholesterol lowering diets and drugs, the treatments of choice. But there is growing dissent. Jill Eisen explores the history and politics surrounding our ideas about heart disease. Part one of a three part series. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:20 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060420_422.mp3 16013 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Heart disease was the biggest pandemic of the twentieth century and remains the number one killer in developed countries. Yet there is still no consensus about its cause. Cholesterol is the number one suspect, and cholesterol lowering diets and drugs, the treatments of choice. But there is growing dissent. Jill Eisen explores the history and politics surrounding our ideas about heart disease. Part two of a three part series. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:20 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060508_448.mp3 19751 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ HEALING THROUGH MINDFULNESS Mary Hynes, the host of Tapestry on CBC Radio One in conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the man who brought mindfulness meditation to hospitals. Kabat-Zinn introduces people to a profoundly spiritual view of life. Just don’t tell him that! Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:19 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060626_646.mp3 82980 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Two THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION The West, according to Karl Polanyi, was the first civilization to â€'disembed” the economy from society and let a self-regulating market dictate its social relations. Part Two of Five. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:27:11 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060710_672.mp3 102378 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Three SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM Karl Polanyi was a life-long socialist, but he opposed the tyranny and bureaucracy of Communism just as strongly as the rule of the market. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:33 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060717_673.mp3 112621 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES Often arbitrary and always consequential: philosophers Michael Blake, Arthur Ripstein, Seana Shiffrin and IDEAS host Paul Kennedy map out the perplexing and inescapable boundaries of political life. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:33 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060612_507.mp3 63379 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Four THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TURN Karl Polanyi highlighted the novelty of the modern West by exploring how earlier societies had contained and subordinated markets. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:28 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060724_674.mp3 121620 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Five THE LEGACY In the last twenty-five years, what Karl Polanyi called, â€'the stark utopia” of a global, self-regulating market has replaced and overwhelmed independent, national economies. Series conclusion. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:27 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060731_675.mp3 132750 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part One A marketplace whose â€'laws” determine social possibilities is the dominant economic idea of our time. David Cayley explores the thought of Karl Polanyi, one of this idea’s greatest critics. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:22 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060703_671.mp3 93472 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio One, explores the two aspects of optimism: Kay Redfield Jamieson talks about exuberence and Peter Kramer argues against depression. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:21 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060807_766.mp3 141499 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Mongrel cities are a twenty-first century reality. Multiculturalism is an ideal about the kind of country we want to be and how we might live together. But can multiculturalism overcome the tribal tendencies that often accompany immigration? In the UBC-Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture, Leonie Sandercock, Professor of Urban Planning and Regional Policy at the University of British Columbia asks, is multiculturalism the solution or the problem? Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:20 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060814_904.mp3 149733 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ All the rules change in emergencies. Or do they? IDEAS host Paul Kennedy and philosophers Michael Blake, Sophia Moreau and Arthur Ripstein discuss urgent—and topical—questions. Listen. Before it's too late. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:53 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060821_905.mp3 157402 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Alexandre Trudeau deflates myths of Canada’s peacekeeping prowress during the Cold War and 1990s, and challenges us to become leaders in settling some of the today's messy conflicts. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:51 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060828_906.mp3 166271 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:50 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060911_908.mp3 186121 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:50 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060904_907.mp3 176870 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:40 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060918_909.mp3 197904 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Is British society Western civilization's "canary in the mine"? A British psychiatrist and writer traces the descent of a culture towards wanton self-destructiveness and alerts us to the new face of barbarism. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:39 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060925_912.mp3 207915 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Science is exposing the secret life of sleep. But why we spend a third of our lives cut off from the world is still a mystery. Jeff Warren follows the cycles of sleep and dreams http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Science is exposing the secret life of sleep. But why we spend a third of our lives cut off from the world is still a mystery. Jeff Warren follows the cycles of sleep and dreams http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:30 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061016_1095.mp3 244464 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Family Life in a time of War: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and William Boyd in conversation with Michael Enright. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:29 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061106_1182.mp3 276655 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:29 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061030_1097.mp3 265057 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:29 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061023_1096.mp3 255472 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Is there such a thing as â€'judicial activism”? Retired supreme court justice John Major, former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia Constance Glube, and University of Alberta law professor Sanjeev Anand weigh the evidence in a Calgary forum. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:19 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061113_1185.mp3 283202 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Pier Luigi Sacco teaches the economics of culture in Venice. He’s interested in concepts of post-industrial economics, co-operative enterprise and game theory. In a discussion recorded in Vancouver, he and social commentator Avi Lewis, talk about changing theories of economics as key to narrowing the gap between rich and poor. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:15 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061120_1221.mp3 305083 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ For decades, the Cold War overshadowed world politics. Events and crises were hotly debated, but how well did citizens�'or their leaders�'understand events as they unfolded? What do we know now that we didn’t know then? Robert Johnson, Professor of History at the University of Toronto,examines how new archival evidence is changing the picture. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:13 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061204_1342.mp3 360599 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Roy MacGregor has spent thirty years travelling and writing about Canada. "You'd think I'd know something," he says. "I don't. I still don't understand how it works." In the 2006 Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism, he describes some of his experiences and reflects on the "Journalism Personality"— something he says cannot be taught — and the privilege and practice of journalism. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:13 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061127_1341.mp3 341507 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ For decades, the Cold War overshadowed world politics. Events and crises were hotly debated, but how well did citizens�'or their leaders�'understand events as they unfolded? What do we know now that we didn’t know then? Robert Johnson, Professor of History at the University of Toronto,examines how new archival evidence is changing the picture. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:10 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061211_1343.mp3 379416 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ For decades, the Cold War overshadowed world politics. Events and crises were hotly debated, but how well did citizens�'or their leaders�'understand events as they unfolded? What do we know now that we didn’t know then? Robert Johnson, Professor of History at the University of Toronto,examines how new archival evidence is changing the picture. Conclusion. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:05 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061218_1373.mp3 391324 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Hans Christian Andersen’s Christmas story was both old-fashioned and environmentally ahead of its time. Paul Kennedy reads The Fir Tree. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:04 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061225_1432.mp3 405505 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Lister Sinclair was curious — about everything — from math, music, science, drama, literature, broadcasting and history to birds, baseball, hockey and popular culture. He spent 60 years on radio and television sharing everything he learned. Recently, family, friends, colleagues and fans gathered in Glenn Gould Studio to honour his memory. The CBC family is happy to be able to share that evening with Ideas listeners. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:01 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070101_1443.mp3 416132 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ What makes modernity different from all previous ways of life? Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor talks to IDEAS producer David Cayley about what makes us modern. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:00 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070115_1553.mp3 447039 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Human beings are unable to grasp the reality that exists beyond our perceptions. Evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins explains why in the Beatty Memorial Lecture recorded at McGill University. Richard Dawkins is the also the author of a number of controversial books, The Selfish Gene, and most recently The God Delusion. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:24:00 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070108_1466.mp3 429194 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ As the Conference Board of Canada launches a major study on the future of our country, President and CEO Anne Golden tells IDEAS host Paul Kennedy what the issues are and why they need to be addressed. The Conference Board’s study is called, Mission Possible: Sustainable Prosperity for Canada. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:23:50 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070122_1583.mp3 461523 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Our monthly feature with Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio One , in conversation with some of the most original and influential thinkers of our time. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:23:48 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070129_1584.mp3 473271 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Cultural critic Adam Gopnik discusses the future of museums by pondering a question that he recently asked his kids: Do you prefer theatres, where you can sit? Or museums, where you can talk? Gopnik was delivering the 2006 Eva Holtby Lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:23:46 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070205_1618.mp3 484750